100+ Confusing Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "With New Funding and Fellows, Code for America Looks to Scale Civic Innovation Across the Country" by Alexander Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Government, Confusing

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Evil, Confusing, Good Evil

Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Confused, Confusing, Alternatives

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

- Johan Huizinga

topic: Beautiful, Depression, Confusing, Beautiful World

The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

- John Searle

topic: Confusing, Analysis, Speech

She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Confusing, Experts, Should

Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.

- Joost Meerloo

topic: Confusing, Mind, Ingredients, Mind Control

The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.

- Joost Meerloo

topic: Confusing, Individuality, Mind

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didnt realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

- Kandyse McClure

topic: Names, Confusing, Firsts

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

- Katharine Isabelle

topic: Girl, Confusing, Monsters, Puberty, Body Change

If by now you're a little confused, don't be too hard on yourself. Life is confusing, and anyone who claims that she has all the answers has probably uncovered the wrong ones.

- Kirsten Miller

source: Kirsten Miller (2011). “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City”, p.231, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Confused, Confusing, Answers

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

- Lee Bolman

topic: Confusing, Excellence, Nails

Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Confusion, Confusing, Complicated, Interfaces, Gnome

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

- Lucy Grealy

topic: Hopeful, Confusing, World

These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

- Lynda Barry

topic: High Heels, Guy, Confusing, Hairdos

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

topic: Order, Organization, Confusing

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

- Marianne Fredriksson

topic: Thinking, Confusing, Patterns

I find people confusing.

- Mark Haddon

topic: People, Confusing

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

- Mark Twain

topic: Writing, Confusing, Easy, Great Writing, Writing Advice

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

- Marlene Dietrich

source: Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

topic: Travel, Home, Confusing

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

- Marty Meehan

topic: Senior, Confusing, Drug, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.

- Maureen Johnson

topic: Kissing, Awkward, Confusing

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

- Max Levchin

topic: Mistake, Engineering, Confusing

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

- Michael Lewis

source: Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Confusing, Credit, Premium, Insurance Policy, Corporate Bond

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

- Michael Ondaatje

topic: Light, Years, Confusing, Different Place

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.12, Penguin

topic: Order, Healthy, Confusing, Slow Food, Eating Food

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

- Michael Porter

topic: Opportunity, Hands, Confusing

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

- Michael Showalter

topic: Thinking, Love Is, Confusing

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...

- Michael Stipe

topic: Confused, Thinking, Confusing, Obviousness, I Am Confused

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

- Murray Walker

topic: People, Confusing, Wish

We shouldn't get hung up on the questions we can't answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We're never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can't.

- Nicole Williams

topic: Focus, Confusing, Answers

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

- Norton Juster

topic: Dog, Confusing, Scratches, Tock

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

topic: Law, Justice, Confusing

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Confusing, Understanding, Way, Using Words, Name Of The Wind

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

- Paul Thomas Anderson

source: "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.

topic: Confusing, Fans, Whimsical

A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.

- Penelope Leach

source: Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Children, Real, Confusing, Toddler, Cooperatives

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

- Piper Perabo

topic: Rain, Sunshine, Confusing, Wales, Pouring Rain

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

- Piper Perabo

topic: Love Is, Confusing, Age

I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.

- Ralph Ellison

topic: Business, Confusing, Way

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.

- Ranvir Shorey

topic: Marriage, Wife, Confusing

It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

- Richard Lederer

source: Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press

topic: Writing, Practice, Confusing, Infinitive, Artificiality

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

- Rob Reiner

topic: Confusing, Kind, Direct

I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

- Rob Zombie

topic: Confusing, Littles, Patient

Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

- Sally Phillips

topic: People, Confusing, Posh

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

- Sarah Chalke

topic: Jobs, Confusing, Roles

I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.

- Sarah Kay

topic: Writing, Love Is, Confusing

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

- Scott Hamilton

topic: People, Confusing, Fame

As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

- Sean Plott

source: Twitter post from Dec 22, 2013

topic: Nice, Confusing, May

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

- Sheena Iyengar

topic: Choices, Confusing, Feels

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

- Sherry Argov

topic: Confusion, Confusing, Ems

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

- Skeet Ulrich

topic: Confusing, Moments

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

- Stephen King

topic: Travel, Writing, Confusing, Creative Artists, Creative Writing

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

- Steve Case

topic: Technology, Thinking, Confusing, Accelerate

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Confusing, Looks, Ability

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

- Tahir Shah

topic: Confusing, India, Explanation

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve â€“ confusing the observer and absorbing attention.

- Thomas Mann

topic: Beautiful, Confusing, Attention, Above And Beyond

Sex is great, if you are in a relationship. Otherwise, I find sex actually not so interesting. Without a relationship it is confusing.

- Tom Cruise

topic: Sex, Interesting, Confusing

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

- Tony DiTerlizzi

source: Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

topic: People, Confusing

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

- Tony Kushner

topic: Confusing, Wish, Would Be, I Wish You Would

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

- Victoria Moran

topic: Long, Confusing, Devil, Handiwork

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Confusion, Confusing, Funny Basketball

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

- Walter Hill

topic: Confusing, Looks

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

- Yara

topic: Confusing, Acting, Want

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Confusing, Yankees Baseball, Deja Vu

People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.

- Zach Braff

topic: Mother, People, Confusing

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

- Alexis Taylor

source: "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

topic: People, Confusing, Band

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.

- Arthur Tress

topic: Photography, Confusing, Defining

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

- Casey Spooner

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Confusion, Confusing, Difficult

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

- Chelsea Martin

topic: Confusing

People don't necessarily want to step away from what they think they know of you. Getting to know this whole other persona and all of the things that come along with that, it can be confusing for people.

- Demetria McKinney

topic: Thinking, People, Confusing

Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.

- Elliott Sober

topic: Skulls, Order, Confusing, Lineage, Adaptive

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

- Erin O'Connor

source: "Muse flash" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2003.

topic: Perfect, Confusing, Awful, Perfect Beauty

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

- Ezra Stoller

topic: Confusing, Great Men, Vistas

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

- Flannery O'Connor

topic: Confusing, Quitting, Madness, Zealot, Fanatics

You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.

- Geoffrey Cowan

source: "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

topic: Believe, Government, Confusing

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

source: Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.22, Hudson Hills

topic: Real, Confusing, Details

Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.

- Guido Palau

topic: Fashion, Confusing, Easy

I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever fell underground. Kraftwerk...it was really mixed. Quite confusing, I suppose, but it just felt good.

- Jez Williams

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Joy, Confusing, Passionate

What's confusing about that, though, is you [Marco Rubio] say if he [Donald Trump] were the nominee, it would destroy the conservative movement. You're painting scary pictures of him being the nominee. But then you're saying he will never be the nominee. You have signed onto the hashtag #neverTrump.I guess what people wonder is, you say all these terrible things about him, but then why might you not, like Chris Christie, who said bad things about him, just turn around and endorse him once - once he gets the nomination?

- John S. Dickerson

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: People, Scary, Confusing

I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the soundtrack to the movie with Elton John and Aretha Franklin. I remember hearing it for the first time and it was so confusing. It was like waves and waves of unknowable and indescribable sound coming out of the stereo.

- John Vanderslice

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Florida, Confusing, Sound, Babysitter

You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

- Joseph Kosinski

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Confusing, Want

I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.

- Laura Mullen

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Art, Book, Confusing, Prologue

In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

- Laura Mullen

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Museums, Texas, Confusing, Clarifying, El Paso

A hijra is someone who has transitioned from male to female, but we don't consider ourselves female because culturally we belong to a completely different section of society. Many hijras are castrated, but it's not compulsory. They say it's the soul which is hijra. We feel we are neither man nor woman, but we enjoy femininity. I enjoy womanhood, but I am not a woman. It's very confusing.

- Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Men, Soul, Confusing

The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming.

- Marion Winik

topic: Life, Dark, Confusing, Bright Side, Unpredictability

It was three breakups going on at the same time. It was breaking up with my band, and my boyfriend, and right after that, my record label. I was arguing a lot with my record label during that whole time, so maybe they all affected each other. This record, Mondo Amore, came out of a time that was really heartbreaking and confusing, and that's why I switched the sound up a lot, to make it sound a little bit grittier and more raw.

- Nicole Atkins

topic: Breakup, My Boyfriend, Confusing

I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the critics agree on parts of the play that just didn't work. I have stopped reading reviews, because I find writing is all about courage. You must have courage when you start writing a play and you cannot have the voice - you must write things out. You cannot have the voice of a critic telling you, "That didn't work in that play, you cannot make it work in another play." Every time you do a production, it's an experimentation.

- Nilo Cruz

topic: Reading, Writing, Confusing

If we can help an advertiser refine a message so it works for our consumers, we should be doing that, but at the same time, you never want to do it by confusing the customer about what the experience is. If we fail in that regard, we do our brand and our customers a disservice.

- Norman Pearlstine

topic: Confusing, Want, Messages, Disservice, Advertisers

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

- Sam de Jong

topic: Growing Up, People, Confusing

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

- Tavares Strachan

topic: Confusing, Way, Human Experience

I would tell a newly diagnosed young woman that breast cancer is a complex disease which can be frightening and confusing, and it's normal to experience these emotions, and having a good support system is important. Be an active participant in your treatment, follow your doctor's instructions and ask questions. Also, I would tell her that there have been many advances in breast cancer and women are now living much longer.

- Thelma Jones

source: Source: www.sheknows.com

topic: Cancer, Support, Confusing

Because I'm in a modern studio, there are so many possibilities - you can do so much. So it's sometimes a little bit confusing for me to actually see which way should I choose.

- Trentemøller

topic: Confusing, Littles, Way

That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group.

- Brad Williams

topic: People, Confusing, Insane

It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously.

- Brad Williams

topic: People, Confusing, Comedian

I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.

- Brad Williams

topic: Opposites, Confusing, Knows

But one thing is certain-in the case of nutrition and health, the science can be confusing and can lead to “paralysis by analysis” (a state in which you take no action because you're not sure what to do).

- Melissa Hartwig

source: Dallas Hartwig, Melissa Hartwig (2014). “It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways”, p.23, Victory Belt Publishing

topic: Confusing, Analysis, Nutrition, Health And Nutrition

Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.

- Natalie Zea

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Confusing, Saws, Actresses

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

- Ronda Rousey

source: "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

topic: Confusing, Illegal, Slap

Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

- Scott Aaronson

topic: Confusing, Consciousness, Mechanic

Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum or whistle a melody if one hits me. Sometimes it's both simultaneously - lyric and melody at the same time - those are a little confusing to me, but sometimes it comes in that form. I just feel like I have my own little radio station and sometimes the static clears and something beams in from out there.

- Hal Ketchum

topic: Hands, Confusing, Radio

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

- Stewart Lee

source: Stewart Lee (2010). “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”, p.8, Faber & Faber

topic: Creative, Confusing, Thrill

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

- Storm Constantine

topic: Psychics, Confusing, Lovers

I'm a horrible historian. My memory is bad. I read things and then I forget them. I can't understand dates and I can't measure time. Time is confusing to me. That's why I do a lot of manipulations of time in my books, in part because an orderly time is physically difficult for me to conceive of in my brain.

- Lucy Corin

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Memories, Book, Confusing

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

- Lynne Tillman

source: Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

topic: Believe, Confusing

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

- Charles Baudelaire

source: Charles Baudelaire, James N McGowan (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.19, Oxford Paperbacks

topic: Men, Confusing, Speech

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Confusing, Strange, Complicated

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

- Soren Kierkegaard

source: Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

topic: Years, Confusing, Eternity

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Confusion, Confusing, Mind

As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.

- Jay Leno

topic: California, Laughing, Confusing, Sesame Street

I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. They're either vastly confusing, or I realize that I'm inventing whatever meaning I'm deriving from whatever happens and it's filtering through my own indulgent perspective.

- Paul Banks

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Perspective, People, Confusing

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.195, e-artnow

topic: Air, Confusion, Confusing, Humpty Dumpty

While you're in the moment of anything that's confusing in your life, you're in the moment, and you have to figure it out. You can go up or down. And I just kept working on the higher road, and trying. I got very involved with medication.

- Linda Blair

source: "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

topic: Confusing, Trying, Down And

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: People, Confusing, Universe

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

- Agatha Christie

source: Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

topic: Knives, Shining, Confusing

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Chance Riches", p. 342, 1983.

topic: Feelings, Confusing, World, Gut Feelings, Randomness

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

- Al Gore

topic: Inspirational, Confusing, Everyday, Improbable, Unprecedented

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

- Jennifer Lopez

source: "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

topic: Love Is, Confusing, Answers

I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

- Christian Bale

topic: People, Confusing, Dinner

We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.

- Jerry Garcia

source: Source: medium.com

topic: Real, Confusion, Confusing, Criminality

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

- Freeman Dyson

source: Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.138, Pantheon

topic: Crazy, Innovation, Confusing

Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.

- Jesse Eisenberg

source: "Jesse Eisenberg Talks WHY STOP NOW?, NOW YOU SEE ME, RIO 2, Richard Ayoade’s THE DOUBLE, and Being Mistaken for Mark Zuckerberg at the Olympics". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2012.

topic: Art, People, Confusing

We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.

- Aleksandar Hemon

source: "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

topic: Order, Comforting, Confusing

I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.

- Gaby Hoffmann

source: "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

topic: Real, Confusing, Desire

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

- Jim Goad

source: Source: love-and-pop.com

topic: Careers, People, Confusing

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

- Sydney J. Harris

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Confusing

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

- Taryn Manning

source: "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

topic: Dad, Choices, Confusing, My Dad Died, Dad Died